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| 758210 | 2009-03-20 22:47:00 | Hey! I've put an old hdd from a mac into my windows vista machine but the computer doesn't pick up the drive. It doesn't show up in bios or anywhere, I can heard the drive working. Its a SATA drive. Would this be because its formatted under for a mac or just faulty hdd? Any way to force it to get picked up? I haven't got an external usb sata enclosure to try :S Thanks anyone. Gregor |
WarNox (8772) | ||
| 758211 | 2009-03-20 23:07:00 | So I found a usb enclosure and that didn't work either. The drive makes some weird noises and then stops, windows doesn't pick it up at all. I think the drive is faulty. | WarNox (8772) | ||
| 758212 | 2009-03-20 23:20:00 | If the BIOS doesnt see it (did you connect the data and power)? Does it appear in disk management, wherever this is in Vista? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 758213 | 2009-03-21 03:09:00 | Is it making the noise in both your computer and the external ? If its the external only it could be a power problem..an under powered drive clicks and stutters. A Windows system will not register a Mac drive , as Speedy said, you will need to find it in Disc manager ( can't help there ) and format it, loosing all info on it. Why did you take it from a Mac..was it stuffed ? |
limepile (96) | ||
| 758214 | 2009-03-21 03:18:00 | Most probably faulty-the head sounds like it could be broken. Did it see it origianlly in Mac? |
Blam (54) | ||
| 758215 | 2009-03-21 04:06:00 | Or another reason the BIOS cant see it. The hdd is SATA 2, the mobo only supports SATA 1. If this is the case. jumper the hdd to SATA150 |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 758216 | 2009-03-22 11:05:00 | Just to update on what ended up happening here: - the drive was taken out of a mac as it was faulty - it was for a friend and i wanted to see if could get any data from it The motherboard definitely supports sataII and both data/power cables were plugged in. I also tried it in a USB enclosure which didn't work either. The drive didn't show up in disk management. I also tried to use Linux to pick it up but that didn't work either, fdisk/gparted didn't find the drive. --- In the end I figured it was faulty and opened the thing up only to see the reading hand go backwards and forward a few times and then just stop, the disk stopped spinning too. As if the power was cut to the drive. Thanks for your help anyway. |
WarNox (8772) | ||
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